Ni GILBERT ESPEÑA
Tulad nang dapat asahan, tinanggihan ni WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. ang 50-50 porsiyentong hatian sa lahat ng kita na iginiit ni pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao nang mag-usap sila sa telepono noong Biyernes.
“He asked about a 50/50 split and I told him no, that can’t happen, but what can happen is you can make more money fighting me than you have made in your career,“ sinabi ni Mayweather sa Sportscenter newscaster na si Stan Verret ng ESPN. “I also let him know I’m in control on my side but he needs to get on the same page as his promoter so we can make this fight happen.“
“It’s just right that we share equally,“ sinabi naman ni Pacquiao sa Fightnews.com. “Floyd has to look at the PPV numbers to understand why it be fair for us to split it in half.“
Dahil dito, kinondena ng maraming boxing writers na tulad nina Scoop Malinowski at Charlie Knoxville si Mayweather na hindi seryoso sa hamon kay Pacquiao.
“I told you so. Three times I’ve guaranteed Floyd Mayweather will duck Manny Pacquiao. And Floyd has done it again. This time Floyd is demanding a 50-50 purse split which is simply not acceptable. This is what Floyd always does when he knows he will very likely lose a fight to an ironwilled, relentless pressure fighter like (Miguel Angel) Cotto, (Paul) Williams, (Antonio) Margarito and Pacquiao: Floyd simply creates a host of excuses and reasons to block the fight he knows he could get beaten up and knocked out in,“ sinaabi ni Malinowski sa boxinginsider.com.
“This time the ducking tactic is executed by pretending to want to force the fight to happen on the illogical date of May 5 as well as demanding the lion share of the total purse despite the fact Floyd is a fading PPV and live gate attraction and Pacquiao is a growing star who now exceeds the American’s star power, even in his own country,“ giit ni Malinowski. “If Pacquiao and Arum were to agree to these latest demands, Floyd will simply use another desperate demand to kill the fight, most likely, `Manny has to drop the lawsuit.’ If Manny were to agree to drop the lawsuit, Floyd and his advisor Al Haymon would simply create yet another block. And on and on it would go.“
“This is how they operate. Mayweather and Haymon do not want to fight Pacquiao and they never have. For two years Mayweather and Haymon have faked and schemed their way through this by pretending to want the fight but whenever it comes close to finalizing a deal they always find a way to block it,“ dagdag ni Malinowski. “How do I know this? Well, Al Haymon’s associate George Peterson, the co-manager of Paul Williams, told me so. `The fight will never happen,’ an emphatic Peterson told me over and over again in December of 2009.“
“All of the Floyd Mayweather fanatics were putting the blame on Manny Pacquiao and Bob Arum -these people are so biased it’s not even funny. Just because Floyd calls Manny out on Twitter doesn’t mean anything, it’s all a smokescreen to act like he wants the fight,“ ulat naman ni Knoxville sa nowboxing.com. “Floyd has done this many times before, just like he lied about there not being a 2nd round of negotiations and decided to go on vacation instead of fighting Manny, and how he said Manny Pacquiao was next and later told a reporter he never said that. Floyd is a liar, even the Judge who postponed his jail sentence denied insisting on a May 5th date.“
Anumang araw ay ihahayag ng Top Rank Promotions kung sino ang makakalaban ni Pacquiao sa Hunyo 9 at lumutang ang pangalan ni WBA light middleweight champion Miguel Angel Cotto na makakaharap ng Pinoy boxer.
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